The mission commander and his three crewmates are plowing through a full slate of research and public outreach.
April 13, 2022 / 5:21 PMThe first NASA-sanctioned all-private crew to visit the International Space Station has had few problems adapting to weightlessness, but a non-stop schedule of proprietary research and public outreach has left little"window time" for sightseeing, their commander said Wednesday.
Axiom-1 mission commander Michael López-Alegría, a retired astronaut and now a vice president with Houston-based Axiom Space, describes the first fully commercial visit to the International Space Station in an interview with CBS News.
The current Ax-1 mission is the first in a series of planned Axiom flights to help pave the way toward commercial operations in low-Earth orbit, something López-Alegría says is critical. "They have certain restrictions on what they can and can't do up here," López-Alegría said."When you're a commercial provider, you can do a lot, you can open the aperture and widen the envelope quite a bit and do other things."
The Ax-1 Crew Dragon approaching the International Space Station April 9 with the half moon in the far distance."Often we have a lot of crew members get a little bit of what they call space adaptation syndrome, which includes being a little nauseous," López-Alegría said."And that almost didn't happen to anybody, which is really unusual out of a four-person crew."
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